Triple

T12894202
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject C. S. Forester E308449 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, better known by his pen name C. S. Forester, was a British novelist famed for his historical naval adventures, particularly the Horatio Hornblower series.
E1022630 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Cecil Louis Troughton Smith | Statement: [C. S. Forester, fullName, Cecil Louis Troughton Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
Context triple: [C. S. Forester, fullName, Cecil Louis Troughton Smith]
  • A. George Ed Powell
    George Ed Powell is an American musician best known as a member of the country rock band Pure Prairie League.
  • B. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • C. George Powell
    George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
  • D. Clive Brook
    Clive Brook was a British film actor best known as a suave leading man in early Hollywood and British cinema during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Ian Hay
    Ian Hay was a Scottish novelist and playwright, born John Hay Beith, known for his popular humorous and military-themed works and for adapting stories for the stage and screen.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
Triple: [C. S. Forester, fullName, Cecil Louis Troughton Smith]
Generated description
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, better known by his pen name C. S. Forester, was a British novelist famed for his historical naval adventures, particularly the Horatio Hornblower series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
Target entity description: Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, better known by his pen name C. S. Forester, was a British novelist famed for his historical naval adventures, particularly the Horatio Hornblower series.
  • A. George Ed Powell
    George Ed Powell is an American musician best known as a member of the country rock band Pure Prairie League.
  • B. Clive Merrison
    Clive Merrison is a Welsh actor known for his extensive work in British film, television, and radio, including his acclaimed portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Radio.
  • C. George Powell
    George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
  • D. Clive Brook
    Clive Brook was a British film actor best known as a suave leading man in early Hollywood and British cinema during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Ian Hay
    Ian Hay was a Scottish novelist and playwright, born John Hay Beith, known for his popular humorous and military-themed works and for adapting stories for the stage and screen.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d7bdf7c1f0819098102569a8d8cbf5 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d971484aa08190a8adfafabe600903 completed April 10, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6e262580c8190ad3f1aa77fd0674c completed May 3, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6e4774f4881908692c2d57158db4a completed May 3, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6e5630a5c8190bc17abac3cc6612e completed May 3, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:40 p.m.